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legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-25/section-1535.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "2 U.S.C. § 1535"
+description: "Least burdensome option or explanation required"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 2
+title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
+chapter_number: "25"
+chapter_name: "UNFUNDED MANDATES REFORM"
+section: "1535"
+citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1535"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc02@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t2/s1535"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-02/usc02.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 2 U.S.C. § 1535 - Least burdensome option or explanation required
+
+## Text
+
+(a) In general Except as provided in subsection (b), before promulgating any rule for which a written statement is required under section 1532 of this title, the agency shall identify and consider a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives and from those alternatives select the least costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome alternative that achieves the objectives of the rule, for—
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+(1) State, local, and tribal governments, in the case of a rule containing a Federal intergovernmental mandate; and
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+(2) the private sector, in the case of a rule containing a Federal private sector mandate.
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+(b) Exception The provisions of subsection (a) shall apply unless—
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+(1) the head of the affected agency publishes with the final rule an explanation of why the least costly, most cost-effective or least burdensome method of achieving the objectives of the rule was not adopted; or
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+(2) the provisions are inconsistent with law.
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+(c) OMB certification No later than 1 year after March 22, 1995, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall certify to Congress, with a written explanation, agency compliance with this section and include in that certification agencies and rulemakings that fail to adequately comply with this section.
+
+(Pub. L. 104–4, title II, § 205, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 66.)